Event Date: February 25, 2009 - 2:00 pm
Location: room 4004, 120 University Private,Social Sciences Building,

A talk by Douglas Bland, Chair in Defence Management Studies, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University.

Co-Sponsor: Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

Registration is not required. This event will be in English.

Douglas Bland is Professor and holds the Chair in Defence Management Studies at the Queen’s University School of Policy Studies. His research concentrates on the fields of defence policy making and management at the national and international level, the organization and functioning of defence ministries, and civil-military relations. His books include The Administration of Defence in Canada, 1947-84; Chiefs of Defence: Government and the Unified Command of the Canadian Armed Forces; and Canada Without Armed Forces?

This event is part of CIPS programming on Afghanistan.